Casler v. Byers

Asahel B. Byers, defendant in error, exhibited in the DeKalb circuit court, against Moses Casler, and Catherine M. Casler, his wife, plaintiffs in error, a bill to foreclose a mortgage. The mortgage deed contained a power of sale, and was executed by said Caslers on the 8th day of April, 1876, to one B. L. Divine, since deceased, on one hundred and twenty acres' of land, for the purpose of securing the payment of a promissory note of that date, for $3350, made by said Moses Casler to said Divine, due five years after date, and drawing ten per cent interest, payable annually. The note was,…